CHARLIE: When you're Jewish like me you try to live life by God's Commandments in the Torah the first Five Books of Moses. Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ...

The mitzvot stretch into every aspect of life for a Jewish person. Keeping these means living a disciplined life, from the food one can and cannot eat to divorce proceedings. Keeping the Torah and ...

In Hebrew, Seder means “order.” Add the letter “bet” and it becomes “B’Seder,” which means “everything’s in order, everything’s allright, all’s good.” But add the word “Lo” and it becomes the opposite ...

According to her website, hasoferet.com, she presently has six Torah scrolls to her credit. She also has a master of arts degree in Jewish Studies from McGill University, for which she wrote a history ...

According to Rabbi Uziel, on all other nights we take our Jewish identity as a given ... the night of Passover around the table. All of the symbols of the Seder – the foods, the customs ...

He replies, “Sunday? But that’s Simchas Torah.” Though Kilmer was not Jewish himself, his on-point pronunciation of the relatively obscure fall Jewish holiday — which celebrates the end ...

From Genesis 12 to the end of Deuteronomy, the Torah focuses on the Jewish people ... created in the divine image, are living symbols of God, whose image they bear. Just as Caesar’s rule ...

The Torah is the pivot of the weave and cross ... pride no matter one’s theology or belief system. While wearing Jewish symbols, eating foods associated with Judaism (whatever that may be ...